Crossing the Pond

After driving around four hours to New York then flew a six ish hour flight into London Heathrow. Turbulence was plenty and leg room was sparse. But I survived! Then we took an hour and a half bus ride to Cheltenham. On the way it rained for a bit then it cleared up to beautiful blue skies! Then I fell asleep but before that I saw sheep. Loads of sheep.

This place is wonderful. I will have pictures of the town soon, you'll love it trust me. Just walking around briefly I immediately fell in love with the place! I have not felt so genuinely happy to be in a place possibly in my whole life. It just works for me and I'm very content in that.

In my short outing to Poundland (where I used pounds for the first time in my life) I asked these two girls what each colour of the milk caps signified and the one girl flipped. She screamed bloody murder, "YOU'VE GOT AN ACCENT!!!!" She must not have been expecting me to be American I guess. Then after that the cashier was from South Africa and the absolute best.  I also got to get really cheap noodles, basically like Ramen. I'm excited for them.

What else, what else? I have been up for ages and want to sleep but I can't. I have a UK phone that's a Nokia. I have never had a phone this primitive in my entire life. It may be old but I am very grateful for it! Yay technology.

My Spotify ads are now all spoken by people with British accents. It's too fun!

Tomorrow we're going to the university and having a proper orientation where we learn the dos and don'ts of being an international student here. Only fun will ensue.